| The Italian word | |
al dente |
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| means | |
| slightly underdone, cooked just right, "to the tooth" | |
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| Examples: | |
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A Tom piacciono gli spaghetti un po' al dente.
Tom likes his spaghetti noodles a little on the hard side. |
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| Examples sourced from tatoeba.org |

